This national park on the shore of Lake Michigan features remarkable dunes that lie at the heart of a Chippewa legend.

The shelves in the back of this thrift store are devoted to saving, not selling, retro tech.

Remnants of a storybook amusement park hidden behind a strip mall.

FDR's Art Deco hospital tower was hopelessly inefficient.

This rare triple-jurisdiction drawbridge passes through Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, D.C.

The design of this historic domed church was influenced by Thomas Jefferson and intended as a statement of religious freedom.

The land is home to swimming ponies and a legendary 18th-century treasure.

The site where Poe “in great distress, and ... in need of immediate assistance” likely died.

The trials and tribulations of marking Poe’s grave.

Metal sculpture folk art lining the Kansas Highway.

A museum documents the development of the invention that tamed the Wild West.

Home of mutant livestock.

A statue high in a hill that represents how Buffalo Bill got his name.

Small plaque marks the spot, but the true center is located about half a mile away on a private pig farm.

One of the Eight Wonders of Kansas and the first official National Natural Monument these stark formations look like nature's Stonehenge.

This shop for all your super spy needs hides an educational secret.

In 2004, a Dave Matthews Band tour bus dumped 800 pounds of waste off a bridge and onto an unsuspecting tour boat below.

These chunky stone towers out in Lake Michigan are the key to Chicago’s drinking water.

This tiny historic jail along Route 66 is the perfect fit for exactly one criminal and their partner-in-crime.

A journey begins with a single step, and for many, the road-trip of a lifetime started at this Chicago intersection.

The 30,000-volume library is one of the world's most impressive poetry collections.

Once one of the world's great cities, Cahokia was a place of religious worship, trade and mass human sacrifice before being mysteriously abandoned.

What's left of the ruins of the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, or World's Fair, also known as the White City.

The only royal palace on U.S. soil has been a territorial capitol, a military headquarters, and a prison for a queen.